reading List

READING LIST

august 2010

• The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart (debut novel)
• Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight (biography)
• Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel (debut novel)
• Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips (novel)

july 2010

• Alone With All That Could Happen (craft) by David Jauss
• Last Rites by David Jauss (novella)
• You Are Not Here by David Jauss (poetry)
• Black Maps by David Jauss (stories)
• My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira (debut novel)

june 2010

• Mrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy Winn (debut story collection)
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike (novel)
• Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom (stories)

may 2010

• The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (novel/reread)
• Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott (novel)
• Verging on the Pertinent by Carol Emshwiller (stories)

april 2010

• The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (novel)
• If I loved you, I would tell you this by Robin Black (debut story collection)
• More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson (debut story collection)
• Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson (novel)
• Evidence by Mary Oliver (poetry)
• A Kind of Flying by Ron Carlson (stories)
  

march 2010

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (nonfiction)
• How Fiction Works by James Wood (craft)
• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (stories)
• Love in Mid Air by Kim Wright (first novel)

february 2010

• Love and Summer by William Trevor (novel)
• Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel (stories)
• Edinburgh by Alexander Chee (first novel)
• Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace (essays)

january 2010

• Devotion by Dani Shapiro (memoir)
• California Transit by Diane Lefer (stories)
• Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro (stories)

december 2009

• Mentors, Muses, & Monsters edited by Elizabeth Benedict (essays)
• The Signal by Ron Carlson (novel)

november 2009

• An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay (first novel)
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (novel)
• Things You Should Know by A. M. Homes (stories)

october 2009

• A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers (poetry)
• Snoop by Sam Gosling (nonfiction)
• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (novel)
• The Sweet In-Between by Sheri Reynolds (novel)
• poemcrazy by Susan Goldsmith Wooldrigde (craft)
• wildlives by Monique Proulx (novel)

september 2009

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (novel)
• Speak Low by Carl Phillips (poetry)

august 2009

• That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo (novel)
• Fearless Confessions by Sue William Silverman (craft)
• The Music Room by Dennis McFarland (first novel/reread)

july 2009

• This is Water by David Foster Wallace (essay)
• The Way to Write by John Fairfax and John Moat (craft)
• The Best American Short Stories 2008 edited by Salman Rushdie (story anthology)

june 2009

• Thinking About Memoir by Abigail Thomas (craft)
• The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (novel)
• The Writer’s Notebook (craft essays from Tin House)
• The Vagrants by Yiyun Li (first novel)

may 2009

• The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan (first novel)
• When the Piano Stops by Catherine McCall (memoir)
• Don’t Cry by Mary Gaitskill (stories)
• Stop-Time by Frank Conroy (memoir)

april 2009

• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (novel)
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel)
• The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King (novel)

march 2009

• House of Light by Mary Oliver (poetry)
• The Secret Currency of Love edited by Hilary Black (essays)
• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (nonfiction)
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (novel/reread)

february 2009

• A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by YiYun Li (stories)
• An Accidental Light by Elizabeth Diamond (first novel)
• Safe Suicide by DeWitt Henry (essays)
• Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton (memoir)
• Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart (poetry)

january 2009

• Dirt Music by Tim Winton (novel)
• The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennetts (nonfiction)
• Light in August by William Faulkner (reread/novel)

december 2008

• Last Night by James Salter (stories)
• Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (reread/novel)
• The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (novel)

november 2008

• Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (autobiography/audio)
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison (novel)
• In the Fold by Rachel Cusk (novel)
• Home by Marilynne Robinson (novel)

october 2008

• To Kill a Mockingbird (novel/audio)
• November 22, 1963 by Adam Braver (novel)
• The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk (novel)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (reread/novel)
• A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk (memoir)

september 2008

The Country Life by Rachel Cusk (novel)
The Temporary by Rachel Cusk (novel)
Falling Through Space by Ellen Gilchrist (reread/essays)
Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk (first novel!)

august 2008

• Why Write?  by Paul Auster (essays)
• The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (first novel!)
• Picturing the Wreck by Dani Shapiro (novel)

july 2008

• Walking to Martha’s Vineyard by Franz Wright (poetry)
• Three Uses of the Knife by David Mamet (essays)
• Light in August by William Faulkner (novel)
• Strong is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell (poetry)
• Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (novel)
• The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso (memoir)

june 2008

• The Heart is a Loney Hunter by Carson McCullers (reread/novel)
• The Problem with Paradise by Lesley Dahl (ya novel)
• Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos (novel)
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (memoir)
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje (novel)
• Flight by Sherman Alexie (novel)
• Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (poetry)

may 2008

• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (linked stories)
• Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (novel)
• A Dangerous Age by Ellen Gilchrist (brand new novel!)
• The Spy who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre (novel)

april 2008

• Animal Crackers by Hannah Tinti (stories)
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (novel)
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (novel)
• The Gateway by T. M. McNally (stories)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (novel)

march 2008

• White Noise by Don DeLillo (novel)
• Falling Man by Don DeLillo (novel)
• Playing with Fire by Dani Shapiro (novel)

february 2008

• Slow Motion by Dani Shapiro (memoir)
• Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (novel)

january 2008

• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (novel)
• Five Skys by Ron Carlson (novel)
• Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson (craft)
• The Art of Subtext by Charles Baxter (craft)
• Fugitive Blue by Dani Shapiro (novel)

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